Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

Seneca

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The human condition is a good one in that no one is unhappy except by his own fault.

So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

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By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul.

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The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself.

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all.

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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